{"id":3442,"date":"2023-06-19T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/archives\/3442"},"modified":"2020-02-02T21:57:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T02:57:07","slug":"lees-miserables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/lees-miserables\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">June 19, 1863, <em>Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>&#8220;I want a copy of that book about Gen. Lee&#8217;s poor miserable soldiers faintin,&#8221; said an old lady in West &amp; Johnston&#8217;s bookstore, the other day.&nbsp; The clerk was dumbfounded.&nbsp; One of the proprietors was sent for, made the old lady repeat her request, turned pale, rolled his eyes wildly, scratched his head and at last exclaimed, &#8220;Oh! yes!&nbsp; I know what it is now you mean <em>Les Miserables.&nbsp; Fantine<\/em>, by Victor Hugo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>&#8220;No, I don&#8217;t&#8221; replied the old lady.&nbsp; &#8220;I know nothing and care nothing about &#8220;Lays Meeserabuls.&nbsp; I want Lee&#8217;s Miserables faintin&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>As nothing else would satisfy her, she was allowed to depart without the book she so eagerly sought.\u2013Whig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 19, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8220;I want a copy of that book about Gen. Lee&#8217;s poor miserable soldiers faintin,&#8221; said an old lady in West &amp; Johnston&#8217;s bookstore, the other day.&nbsp; The clerk was dumbfounded.&nbsp; One of the proprietors was sent for, made the old lady repeat her request, turned pale, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":85606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/The-Memphis-Daily-Appeal.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}